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Gotye Creates 'Somebody That I Used to Know' YouTube Mashup

This is Gotye's answer to all of those Jedi masters, disillusioned Obama voters and aspiring musicians who have taken a stab at "Somebody That I Used to Know."

The Belgian-born Australian musician painstakingly remixed dozens of covers of his most popular song into "Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra," a mashup video that could be the cover to end all covers.

"Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of 'Somebody That I Used To Know' seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn't resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered," Gotye wrote on his YouTube page.

To create the mix, he added no extra instruments, but did utilize "EQ, filtering, pitch-shifting and time-stretching" tools to make it all fit together.

Even though the musician appears to have a complicated relationship with "Somebody That I Used to Know" ( in April he criticized "Glee's" cover of it, and also said he was somewhat sick of the song), he apparently has a soft spot for the large crop of YouTube covers that have popped up.

"Thank you to everyone who has responded to 'Somebody That I Used To Know' via YouTube," he wrote. "It's truly amazing!